Smash the System! offers a snapshot of anarchist punk as a
culture of resistance across the globe. In these diverse and
internationalist chapters we witness struggles against racism and
colonialism in South Africa, resistance to neo-liberalism and state
oppression in Latin America, resistance to police brutality and
capitalism in Western, Central and Southeast Europe, struggles for
equality and against patriarchy in the US, and anarchist resistance
against injustice and authoritarianism in Asia. The common theme is
that anarchist punks have consistently sought to SMASH THE SYSTEM,
whether that system is capitalism, state socialism, authoritarian
communism, the police state, patriarchy, racism, ethno-nationalism,
fascism, homophobia, colonialism, neo-liberalism, or the military
industrial complex. In doing so anarchist punks have built thriving
and diverse cultures of resistance and revitalised the anarchist
movement across the world.
